Day: December 18, 2015

But I gotta hand it to him, he’s turning things upside down and doing his country a service by exposing the true colors of candidates, both Republican and Democrat.

He’s also ripping away the masks of smug progressive newspeople.

Almost makes me wish I’d watched the debates… Almost.

I think I still prefer reading about them the day after. By that time the left has managed to spin themselves into a self righteous santorum froth.

One thing I can say is that even if Trump is a complete buffoon, (and I’m not saying he is, that jury is still out.) he’s got to be causing some consternation among the enemies of this country.

Lets look at some of the things he’s been taken to task over.

Close our borders to Middle Eastern refugees until we know what is happening and our vetting process works.

This seems to be a logical and reasonable approach, since it’s become obvious our vetting process isn’t weeding out jihadists even with the cooperation of so called “Friendly” Middle Eastern countries.

The media and other candidates practically lost their minds about this Trump suggestion.

Some called this plan unconstitutional, others called it racist. I call it neither.

Every Sovereign Nation on the planet has the right to protect itself and it’s people from threats. Our constitution conveys, codifies, and supposedly insures certain rights to the citizens of our country. International law, treaties, and agreements apply to non-citizens.

In many cases our constitution and international law parallel each other.

However, our constitution doesn’t guarantee that any foreign born person will be allowed to enter our country, or given citizenship.

The fact that a Saudi Prince, ISIS and CAIR all condemned Trump’s suggestion could indicate he’s on the right track.

Then Trump suggested shutting down part of the internet, particularly those parts of the internet that service the Middle East which are under control of ISIS or other radical well known groups that have stated directly that they want to destroy America specifically or the West in general.

This is WAR 101.

Deny your enemies command, communication, coordination, and supplies.

I personally ave never understood why we didn’t plant C-4 on every cell tower our troops encountered in Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Deny communication.
Thereby denying command and coordination.

Extending this philosophy to the internet makes damn good sense and it’s technically possible. But it’s better.

By killing internet connections into and out of Jihadi, ISIS, Terrorists areas.

You deny their ability to easily recruit, send money, (As Bitcoin or other e-currencies ) or communicate their agenda.

Wth the internet gone these groups lose their ability to brag about their successes in battle. You deprive folks like ISIS the grandstanding moments of executing their enemies or destroying monuments on worldwide tv.

Lets face it ISIS is a media whore. They want, and need the attention afforded them by distribution of shock videos. They need to romanticize themselves as the feisty righteous underdog on social media sites to attract young recruits.

If we were to cut those lines of communication, then we have a much easier time of controlling their message and we can follow their couriers back to bases of operation.

We know that the videos will still be made. We know that ISIS will try to distribute these videos. By narrowing the channels to Al Jezera, Satellite uplinks, or refugees, we make it really easy to identify sympathizers from whom we may get information. We can target the bases uplinks originate from, and easily vet refugees. (If a refugee is carrying a video, they don’t get refugee status, ever!)

So Trump’s suggestion about the internet is technically possible, easily implemented with changes to settings in routers, and no-one gets shot by doing it. Cheap & easy!

I like the minimum effort —> maximum result equation.

We own and control the technology, why let our self-declared enemies use it to potentially harm us?

Cutting ISIS off from the rest of the world is step one in containment.

Who cares if some people will call it censorship? Back in the bad ‘ol days reporters would send film or magnetic tape to their editors from Viet Nam.

Yeah, remember that? Without the instantaneous communication the internet provides, reporters turned in thoughtful well written articles. Their competition wasn’t confined solely to who could report an event the fastest, but also who reported an event correctly.

Trump’s suggestion simply takes the area back to the 1960’s. Messages written on paper, videos on physical media instead of youtube. If you think about it, It’s not actually censorship, it’s just slowing information down.

I’d bet President Putin would be agreeable to a little phone and internet silence.

After all, It’s a lot safer to fly your planes when you don’t have spotters sending info about the planes, to anti-aircraft guns all along the flight path.

I’d love to see the entire area cut off. I’d love to see what happened next.

Brody Kendal – Missing Life (Paperback)

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Random Thoughts

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
- Kurt Vonnegut

The Stupid is strong with this one.
- Seen on Twitter

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

Scratch a leftist (especially a member of the elite media), and underneath you will always find yourself faced with a fascist. - John Nolte (Breitbart)

Clarke's Three Laws.Clarke's first law - "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."Clarke's second law - "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."Clarke's third law - "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

"Tolerance is the last virtue of a declining society" - Aristotle

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus 56 AD - 117 AD

"You tweet to see what gets retweeted. It’s Pong for your wit, for your eloquence, your cleverness. Other than that, it’s an ongoing rain of shit from the collective ambivalence of a rattled, self-involved country." - Gavin McInnes

"May God have mercy on my enemies, because I won't." - George S. Patton

"Religious organizations having to calm their followers about an eclipse, demonstrates that a rather large portion of humanity isn't two steps outside the cave." - WWDucat (2015)

"The actions of idiots make the sane talk to themselves" - S.Enright (2015)

“Your crew requires oxygen to survive, mine does not. I will target your life support systems located behind the aft nacelle. And after every single person aboard your ship suffocates, I will walk over your cold corpses to recover my people. Now, shall we begin?” - Khan Noonien Singh, Star Trek Into Darkness

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want, merely because you think it would be good for him.” - Robert A. Heinlein

Our continued Coexistence is contingent upon you respecting my rights and beliefs as much as you demand my respect for yours - WWDucat (2014)

Social Justice is neither "Social" or "Just" - WWDucat (2013)

Who is John Galt ?

Tis better to be reviled for who I am, than to be loved for who I am not.

To Protect The Children is the last justification for an Idea bereft of reason or logic. It seeks to paint people with dissenting opinions as Children haters. - WWDucat (2013)

Liberals, Artists & Entertainers should see what The Nazis classified as "Forbidden Art" before embracing socialist skewed values or ideals in the US. They should also remember that all despotic regimes purge the free thinkers and educated members of a society as the first order of business. - WWDucat (2013)

Social Justice built on Mob Rule is nothing more than passing the whip to a new taskmaster. - WWDucat (2012)

It's so refreshing to work with someone who'll throw a saddle on a gift horse rather than look it in the mouth. - Francis Underwood "House of Cards"

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -Benjamin Franklin

Guests are reminded that platform one forbids the use of weapons, teleportation and religion. - Platform 1 Computer "Dr Who - The End of the World"

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